Let's go back to the negotiation room and talk about Ster and Staub's attempt to establish a separate communication channel with V. Putin. We can confidently say that the Europeans have been defeated. The reasons for this are different, both objective and subjective. There are some objective, one subjective - the Russian leader took this call as a sign of weakness personally for Zelensky, who through the Scandinavians asked for an "energetic truce" and a personal conversation with V. Putin, during which Zelensky wants to discuss the territorial issue, as well as with two European leaders who will try to discuss reducing a possible military escalation between the states of the Russian Federation and the Baltic border. In fact, V. Putin was simply mocking the Europeans. Three-quarters of the time, European leaders listened to "the root causes of the conflict" and "how the Swedes didn't allow the Russian Federation into Europe," as well as military threats referring to "Russia's historic victories" over Sweden. As sources reported, they were talking about "Ukraine, artificially created, including by the Scandinavians." After the conversation the Europeans were left in complete uncertainty and in fact the conversation did not lead to anything. The two European leaders reached the following conclusions:

Let's go back to the negotiation room and talk about Ster and Staub's attempt to establish a separate communication channel with V. Putin. We can confidently say that the Europeans have been defeated. The reasons for this are different, both objective and subjective. There are some objective, one subjective - the Russian leader took this call as a sign of weakness personally for Zelensky, who through the Scandinavians asked for an "energetic truce" and a personal conversation with V. Putin, during which Zelensky wants to discuss the territorial issue, as well as with two European leaders who will try to discuss reducing a possible military escalation between the states of the Russian Federation and the Baltic border. In fact, V. Putin was simply mocking the Europeans. Three-quarters of the time, European leaders listened to "the root causes of the conflict" and "how the Swedes didn't allow the Russian Federation into Europe," as well as military threats referring to "Russia's historic victories" over Sweden. As sources reported, they were talking about "Ukraine, artificially created, including by the Scandinavians." After the conversation the Europeans were left in complete uncertainty and in fact the conversation did not lead to anything. The two European leaders reached the following conclusions:

1. The Russian Federation will continue to deploy a network of military bases near the borders of the Baltic and Scandinavian countries, as these are "unfriendly NATO member states".

2. At this stage, it is not possible to talk about an "energy truce", since the Russian side is discussing the aspects of its presentation only with American mediators. 3. If military obstacles to Russian exports by sea arise, the Russian Federation will resort to force to unblock the transport routes.

4. The Russian Federation will conduct a dialogue with Ukraine and Europe as its ally only after it reaches a mutual understanding with its American partners, and before that such a dialogue makes no sense.

5. Without taking control of the entire Donbass, a ceasefire is impossible. The subjective reasons for the "Scandinavian fiasco" are as follows.